After snowfall, Kashmir witnesses sunny morning

Intermittent gentle snowfall continued in most components of Kashmir on Saturday night time, however clouds made means for the solar on Sunday morning even because the MeT workplace forecast primarily dry climate for the week forward.

A MeT official stated that moist spell introduced some aid to Srinagar. (Photograph: Rouf Ahmad)

Intermittent gentle snowfall continued in most components of Kashmir on Saturday night time, however clouds made means for the solar on Sunday morning even because the MeT workplace forecast primarily dry climate for the week forward.

A MeT official stated that moist spell introduced some aid to Srinagar, which recorded minimal temperature of minus zero.four diploma Celsius.

Well-known ski resort of Gulmarg in north Kashmir recorded minus 9.zero diploma Celsius. The Pahalgam hill station in South Kashmir that serves the bottom camp of Amarnath Yatra recorded minimal temperature of minus 2.eight diploma Celsius.

(Photograph: Rouf Ahmad)

Qazigund, the gateway city to the Kashmir valley, recorded minus zero.9 levels Celsius.

Contemporary snowfall introduced aid to the residents of Ladakh as nicely. Leh recorded minimal temperature of minus 6.5 levels Celsius on Sunday, 5.four notches above than earlier night time that was recorded minus 11.9 levels Celsius.

(Photograph: Rouf Ahmad)

The 434-km lengthy Srinagar-Leh freeway and 86-km lengthy Mughal highway that connects south Kashmir’s districts with the Poonch and Rajouri district’s of Jammu area remained closed as a result of accumulation of snow on floor at a number of locations.

Kashmir is at present underneath the grip of ‘Chillai-Kalan’ the 40-day harshest interval of winter when the probabilities of snowfall are most frequent and most and the temperature drops significantly.

‘Chillai-Kalan’ ends on January 31, however the chilly wave continues even after that in Kashmir. The 40-day interval is adopted by a 20-day lengthy ‘Chillai-Khurd’ (small chilly) and a 10-day lengthy ‘Chillai-Bachha’ (child chilly).

(With PTI inputs)

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